replecator ships

[Todd the prior]

after the battle over dakara there must have been hundreds of formaly replacator gou'ld mother ships lying around the galaxy. as we have previously seen these ships are stronger than assgard ships, and can travel at speeds far greater than anything else out there. WHY IS NO ONE FLYING THESE THINGS AROUND?
i mean humans have found thousand year old ancient ships, but we can't find a ha'tak in orbit over a planet? they wern't destroyed, cause the dakara device only destupted the bonds of the replecators. so what happened to these wonderful ships that nearly overwemed the assgard, and the whole milkyway galaxy? on a side note, what happened to the replecators in the ida galaxy?

[Gormagon]

They were taken over by the free Jaffa nation the Tok'ra and Lucian Alliance. And who knows who else.

Also, they were only shown being better then older Biliskner class vessels.

[Todd the prior]

thats still pretty strong, and we know they are increadably fast. i had thought the jaffa and LA only had standerd ha'taks, because in the battle around the supper gate the ha'taks are wiped out while our assgard shielded ships (which are weaker than replicator ships) servive (for longer at least).

[Gormagon]

Perhaps those were standard Ha'tak in the battle of the Chapa'ko. But the Anubis/Replicator Ha'tak did get spread throughout the galaxy. There are also many, many types/classes of Ha'tak vessel.

However Tau'ri vessel shields were upgraded a few times over the seasons with progressively better Asgard technology. It is highly likely the shields equipped on a 304 are better then the shielding technology on the less advanced Biliskner class vessels, but not even close to O'Neill level until Unending. And even then I doubt a 304 would have enough power to have shields as strong as those on an O'Neill class ship without a ZPM.

An O'Neill was seen taking main Ori cannon shots with little difficulty well a 304 was cut down to 50% "HP" in one shot.

I also would believe there is a limit to how much the Replicators can improve upon the systems of alien vessels, so even the best Goa'uld technology based shields would probably not compete with mid grade Asgard shields, as the Daniel Jackson was seen taking over a dozen hits from a Replicator Ha'tak with minimal damage.

[escyos]

Maybe the Replicators themselves are what made the ships better and without them connected to the ships systems, the ships are just normal.

[Gormagon]

I am pretty sure the modify ship board technology. They can link to the energy system in order to use their own advanced technology to boost a ships power levels.

Which begs the question....what powers a Replicator?

[thekillman]

I would say the Replicators made their own hyperdrive on board the ship, from repliblocks.

They're probably powered by systems similar to the power buffer of an Asgard shield or the Asgard Power Core, or systems like the capacitors in a Stargate.

[LT. COL. John Sheppard]

assgard

hehe weird sense of humor but to help you out it's Asgard

[thekillman]

hehe weird sense of humor but to help you out it's Asguard

It's Asgard. Not Asguard.

[LT. COL. John Sheppard]

Chrome spell-checker

[thekillman]

OH and for the OP: It's Replicators.

[Dazzle foot]

The galaxys a big 'ol place. If the replicator Goa'uld ships are just laying there dormant, and not putting out a big power signature, I guess these ships would be hard to find?

[thekillman]

Well a whole bunch of them were in orbit over Dakara...

[Dazzle foot]

Sorry, I was referring to the first comment "there must have been hundreds of formaly replacator gou'ld mother ships lying around the galaxy"

[McAvoy]

It is a strong possibility that the Replicators themselves made them stronger. I mean a bunch of replicator blocks can make a functional starship, so it wouldn't be too hard to integrate with an existing ship to make it better. I am sure there were more permanent upgrades after their defeat.

The other thing too is who knows if the Ha'taks we saw in later seasons are standard or upgraded. The technology on board the 303 and 304s have been upgraded so many times it is hard to estimate the limits of the shields. I mean by the end of Atlantis, 304 shields could withstand five shots from a Ori ship for all we know.

[Mister Oragahn]

Maybe the Replicators themselves are what made the ships better and without them connected to the ships systems, the ships are just normal.

That.
We've possibly seen a demonstration of this phenomenon in "Enemies", wherein Replicators boosted a hyperdrive by clogging around some power structure (among other things, but we don't know what they were doing elsewhere though).

[Mister Oragahn]

I would say the Replicators made their own hyperdrive on board the ship, from repliblocks.

They're probably powered by systems similar to the power buffer of an Asgard shield or the Asgard Power Core, or systems like the capacitors in a Stargate.

That they piled up to create a hyperdrive is another possibility, although the vibe I got from that pile of bugs is that they were just providing more energy. We know that past a certain size they can do new things: queens cast a watery field with vibrating energy inside.

As for the energy, it's your guess. ZPE, subspace tap, etc.

[garhkal]

That would be interesting, a subspace tap of sorts similar to project acturus..